Ordinance
on the Handling of Organisms in the Environment
(Release Ordinance, RO)

¹ The FOEN shall carry out sur­veys that are ne­ces­sary to as­sess the en­vir­on­ment­al pol­lu­tion caused by par­tic­u­lar or­gan­isms, by par­tic­u­lar prop­er­ties of or­gan­isms, or by par­tic­u­lar ge­net­ic ma­ter­i­al.

² For this pur­pose it shall en­sure, as re­quired:

a.

the de­vel­op­ment of ap­pro­pri­ate meth­ods to de­tect these or­gan­isms, these prop­er­ties or this ge­net­ic ma­ter­i­al in the en­vir­on­ment;

b.

the tar­geted in­vest­ig­a­tion of en­vir­on­ment­al samples for the pres­ence of these or­gan­isms, these prop­er­ties or this ge­net­ic ma­ter­i­al.